Light Red Kidney Beans Organic

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CERTIFIED ORGANIC! Light Red Kidney Bean seeds are some of the nicest quality cooking beans we know. The skins are thin and shiny, staying firm when cooked, but with a creamy texture and mild flavour. These are our favourite for chili and bean salad recipes, and they're very easy to grow and harvest. The medium sized bush plants are widely adaptable, producing high yields from just a handful of seeds. Direct sow the seeds in mid-May, and harvest mid-August for drying beans that can be eaten all winter. Growing and drying this bean is a fun and educational project for kids of all ages.

Matures in 95 days.(Open pollinated seeds)

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25g (approx. 50 seeds)

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Best drying bean for cooking

Certified organic seeds

Open pollinated seeds

Early maturing

Highly productive

How To Grow

Dry beans are an ecologically sound foodstuff in today’s world. Being a bean, they produce at least part of their own nitrogen supply with the help of symbiotic bacteria, which live in the soil. Dry beans are one of the easiest crops to produce organically. Dry beans are excellent protein sources when combined with whole grains, nuts or small amounts of meat or fish. Dried beans also contain fibre and minerals (remember to discard the soaking and cooking water to reduce flatulence). Follow along with this handy How to Grow Dry Beans Guide and grow delicious beans for hearty soups all winter long.

LatinPhaseolus vulgaris Family: Fabaceae

Difficulty Easy

We Recommend:Borlotti (BN120). For flavour and vigour, few dried beans beat this very tall Italian heirloom variety. Grow the traditional way on 15 foot poles, and harvest when the pods turn colour. You’ll have mountains of dry beans for use all winter.For Urban Gardeners:Dark Red Kidney (BN147). Super-productive plants that stay compact and bushy. Great in containers – and great in soups! A very fun crop to grow with your kids.

Season & ZoneSeason: Warm season.Exposure: Full-sun.Zone: All zones.

Timing Sow as early as possible for beans, around mid-May, so plants can mature before wet weather sets in. Optimal soil temperature: 21-32°C (70-90°F).

Starting Sow seeds 2-5cm (1-2″) deep, 5-8cm (2-3″) apart, in rows 45-60cm (18-24″) apart. Thin to at least 15cm (6″) apart in each row. Using bean or combination inoculants on seeds helps growth. If the weather is too wet, beans can also be started in pots indoors and set out carefully a few weeks later. Seeds will sprout in 8-16 days, depending on conditions.

Growing Ideal pH: 6.0-6.5. Well drained, warm soil in full sun is best. Raised beds help with both drainage and warmth. Use 1 cup of complete organic fertilizer for every wm (10′) of row. Too much nitrogen fertilizer is often the cause of poor pod set and delayed maturity. If beans flower but do not set pods, the cause can be zinc deficiency. Try spraying the plants with kelp based fertilizer. Wet leaves on crowded plants are subject to diseases. Thin plants to increase air circulation and avoid touching the leaves while they are wet.

Harvest Stop all watering when the first pods start drying out. Harvest when the seedpods are straw coloured. Pull the plants up by the roots and hang to dry. To shell the beans bash them back and forth inside a bag or pillowcase. Or shell them individually by hand. Do not pick until pods are dry. The beans themselves can then be set somewhere out of direct sunlight, where air movement is good, for a further week to insure even dryness.

Diseases & Pests Cutworms and root maggots can attack seeds and seedlings. Allowing for good air circulation between plants, and taking care not to over fertilize can slow foliar disease, both fungal and bacterial. When thinning your seedlings try to keep enough space in between for air circulation to reduce disease incidence.